We spend our days in deliberating, and we end them without coming to any resolve.

My dear, In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love. In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile. In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm. I realized, through it all, that… In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back. Truly yours, Albert Camus

How had I not seen that there was nothing more important than an execution, and that when you come right down to it, it was the only thing a man could truly be interested in?

In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture.

Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. ("The Plague")

There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness.

Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.